Improvement in apparatus for setting ur music



H. GOODWIN. Apparatus for setting up Music.

No. 195,924. Patented Oct; 1 77.

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED; ST T PATENT ome immumncoonwm, or maximum-new JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS For: sir-Hue: us: MUSIC.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,924, dated October9, 1877 application filed July 13, 1877.

' proved Apparatus for Setting Up Music, of

which the following is a specification: I

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a front view Fig. 2, aside View of the copying-board of my improved apparatus for setting upmusic; and ,Figs. 3 and 4 are a rear and side view of the apparatus.

The object of this invention is to provide, a

newand improved apparatus 'for setting up.

music in type, in order to. the production of slu'faces 0r plates bywhich, in connection with any of the well-known processes ofphoto-lithography, photo-zincography, photo-engraving,

photo-typography, &c., all kinds of music can be printed very rapidlyand economically. 3 The invention consists of a copying-board made ofdetachablesections, some of which sections are provided with a musicalstaif,'others not, on all which are a series of grooves parallel to eachother and to the, lines of the staif-bearing sections. These grooves arefor the purpose of holding in right position the musicaltypesand othermusical characters, letters, borders, the, these-having attached attheir backs flanges or plates to be inserted into the grooves of the 1board. Y The grooves on those sections which contain no musical staffare more especially to sustain and holdin ex-v act positionheadings,'titles, the letters and lines of a hymn, song, or any othermatter for printing.

In the drawing, A represents the copyingboard of my improved apparatusfor setting up music, letters, &c., constructed of any suitable munberof sections, B, all being mounted,

by screws and clamps a, on a suitable frame, 0,

that swings by pivots in a supporting stand- 1 ard or standards, O.- Theswinging of the 'frame 0 admits the copying-board to be supported at anysuitable inclination, not only to meet the demands of thecopying-camera, but to facilitate attaching to the frame the sections ofthe board after the music has been set up therein.

To set up the music, &c., we takea single section, or, better, acombination of two sections, of the board, and place it convenientlybefore a printing-case divided oifinto the nlunber of partitionsrequired forthe different notes characters, &c. The notes, characters,&c., p are next applied from left to right to the section, which, whencompleted, is attached to the uppermost part of the supporting-frame bymeans of screw and clamp or other device. Then another section istreated in the samemanner, being attached below and close to the sectionfirst fastened up, and so on till the board is made up and set up withtype, characters, and letters. 1 r 1 i Eachlstafli-bearing section B ofthe copyingboard Ais provided with a number of grooves,

as well as intermediately between and paralle to the lines of the same.These grooves serve for inserting the types, characters, letters, &c.,which are made of wood, metal, papier-mach,

rear plate or flange, d, projecting at a suitable letter or character,so as to sustain the same inposition'when placed into one of the groovesof the copying-board. The grooves are so arranged between the lines thatby the use of one a groove the notes are brought on one of the lines ofthe stafl while by the use of the other they are brought into the spacebetween the lines.

The copying-board is preferably painted a dead-black, while the lines ofthe stafl' and the faces of the types, letters, characters, D, arepreferably painted in the most actinic white color, without a gloss.

In place of the grooves and flanges. equivalent fastening devices may beprovided for the types, musical signs, letters, &c.

board together with the text, border, and all musical signs, andwhenfinally connected is photographed, and then the impression sosecured is employed either in engraving metallic plates for use in theordinary printing-press, or in producing a transfer for the lithographicany one of the well-known processes, so thereby the music set up on theboard maybe multiplied as required.v

b, above and below and parallel to thestafl' or other material, andprovided with a small angle from the head of the note or body of. the

The music to be reproduced is set up on the stone, or in producing anelectrotype-plate by My system of setting up and reproducing musicpossesses all the rapidity of electroty wplate, and also the continuityand neatness of the engraving process, and has the following furtheradvantages: first, that the notes and other characters used are fiftytimes the usual size, and can be easily handled, with little lia bilityof making mistakes in setting up the music; that the mistakes which maybe made can in a moment be corrected by lifting the misplaced characterto its right position; next, that elaborate titles, vignettes, andtitle-pages for any work besides music can be set up at the same timeand with the same facility as the music itself, and so take the place ofthe costly engraving at present in use. I submit, further, that myprocess has these other following special advantages: First, as comparedwith the engraving process, it is far less costlyin composition, asskilled and exact workmanship is demanded in the manufacture of theengraved plate, while girls and women having received but triflinginstruction can perform a large share in the preparation of the printingsurface or blocks prepared according to'my system. Seeond,-it is farmorerapid. An engraved plate may turn out a thousand impressions a day,while the etched plate, or electrotype-plate,

or the lithographic stone, all prepared by my process, and all workingunder steam, can turn out more than ten thousand a day. Third, it ismore enduring. The engraved plate wears out, and becomes useless aftergiving'five'or at the most, ten thousand impressions, whereas the etchedplate or electrotype-plate made in connection .with my process arevirtually indestructible imder almost any amount of wear.

And next, as compared with the old system of setting up ordinary musicaltype from which to secure an electrotype-plate, I propose the followingadvantages for my processf First, while the types for my apparatus arevery few in number and fifty times the size of usual types, and whileeach representsthe whole of a musical note, there are in ordinary typesas many as four hundred varieties, and all small and diflicult tohandle, and a number of which must be combined to produce a singleprinted note, and therefore, while a certain munber of minutes areneeded to set up a given piece of music on my copying-board,- nearly asmany.

hours may be required to set, in the usual way, the samemusicforelectrotyping. Second,while music thus set up on my board can bedone by unskilled hands, the setting up of ordinary music-type requiressuch skilled compositors as receive twenty-five per cent. higher wagesthanordinary compositors. y

- Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Pat- Acopylng-board consisting of sections, some beingprovided with a musical stafi, and having two grooves between every-twolines of the stafi, said grooves being arranged in the dark HANNlBALeoonwm.

Witnesses PAUL GOEPEL, O. SEDGWIGK.

